Sian Reece (she/her)

Dr Sian Reece is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health at the University of Exeter and a Public Health Registrar at Devon County Council. Her research focuses on maternal health inequalities and the long-term impact of maternal wellbeing on mothers and children. Her current programme of work seeks to develop data-driven tools and frameworks to identify maternal vulnerability and inform more equitable, evidence-based maternity services and policy.

Sian’s research integrates mixed methodology, including epidemiological, quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how structural inequities shape experiences and outcomes in maternity and community care. She has led mixed-methods studies on financial insecurity and maternal mental health, co-located welfare advice interventions, and participatory photovoice research exploring the impact of stillbirth on families. Her work is closely aligned with the University’s priorities around health equity, inclusion, and translational public health research.

A medical graduate of Hull York Medical School, Sian completed an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Primary Care, a Master’s in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a PhD in Medical Science supervised by Professor Kate Pickett and Dr Josie Dickerson. She previously held a Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellowship at Public Health England, contributing to the UK’s Ebola response and the organisation’s first Health and Wellbeing global health strategy.

Sian is a core working group member of the International Stillbirth Alliance’s Stillbirth Advocacy Working Group and is the Public Health Registrar representative on the Faculty of Public Health’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She was named among the 100 Women Leaders in Global Health, awarded the Sam Ramaiah Award by the Faculty of Public Health, and holds an Associate Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.